White v. McGill

WALTHALL, Justice.

On the 31st day of July, 1937, the county of El Paso, Tex., entered into a contract with C. H. Armstrong, Chas. Levy, W. E. Arnold, H. F. Bennett, and Sam Blumen-thal, hereinafter referred to as “tax ferrets,” by the terms of which the tax ferrets agreed to point out to the tax assessor and collector of El Paso county, pri- or to October 1, 1937, personal property which the owners had failed to assess for the year 1937 or- years prior thereto and which the tax assessor and collector had not discovered. If the state joined in the contract, the tax ferrets were to be paid 15…